TV Weekend: FNL Begins Its End

Friday Night Lights airs the first of its last three episodes (of this season! let’s think positive!) tonight. There haven’t been any decisions made about the show’s future–there aren’t many decisions being made about anything given the writers’ strike–but FNL’s continued survival is one of the few and best side benefits of the strike. (FNL was also the subject of this excellent Virginia Heffernan column, if you haven’t read it yet.) I haven’t been great about post-show blogging FNL; Tell Me You Love Me and then The Wire were in the way after the weekend, and, pfft!, what, am I going to blog the show Friday night? (That’s drinky time, my friends.) But I’ll leave this post up for discussion. Support your team!